Sentences with phrase «go public used»

SPOTLIGHT ON THE FIRM Into the Spotlight: How to Be a Successful Public Director For many VC and PE professionals having a portfolio company go public used to mean it was time to give up their board seat.

For many VC and PE professionals having a portfolio company go public used to mean it was time to give up their board seat.

Enter Spotify's non-IPO, which, if successful, could encourage other startups reticent to pursue a traditional IPO to go public using a direct listing.

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And in 2013 it went public, so its stock could be used for dealmaking.

As The Verge wrote of the bot's downfall: «It's a joke, obviously, but there are serious questions to answer, like, how are we going to teach AI using public data without incorporating the worst traits of humanity?»

Xiaomi Corp. (xiaomi) became the first major company to use Hong Kong's new rules for going public, filing for what's expected be the world's biggest debut since 2014.

In early stage deals investors used to commonly ask for a provision preventing the company from going public for less than a certain price.

The use of an IPO as a branding event is a «pretty bad reason to go public,» he added.

Almost from the get - go, Appnovation's customers were predominantly from the U.S., where the use of open source software is much more established, especially in the public sector (Canadian governments have been slow to adopt these technologies).

«If you've got a CEO saying they won't go public, you should be using a 70 % or 80 % liquidity discount,» Gurley said.

So the earned public markets returns have mostly gone not to traditional «buy and hold» (usually smaller) investors, but to traders using leverage and derivative strategies to «game» returns.

If and when the company, which makes a line of streaming media players and licenses its software for use on a growing number of smart TVs, goes public, it'll have a few attractive stats it can use to sell itself.

Now, California's motor vehicles officials face an end - of - year deadline to write regulations that will allow driverless cars to go from testing to use by the public in June 2015.

Musk further said that using public transit meant rubbing shoulders with «like a bunch of random strangers, one of who might be a serial killer... that's why people like individualized transport, that goes where you want, when you want.»

While the Securities and Exchange Commission is attempting to ease the process of going public, recently widening the use of private draft - stage listings for example, long - term secular changes in the capital markets suggest that private funds are likely to remain equally, if not more, appealing to growing firms than public financing.

Private clouds use many of the building blocks of public clouds, lots of automation, the ability to charge internal departments on a pay - as - they - go basis, but are otherwise wholly managed by the customer they serve.

The macro story here is that public cloud leaderAmazon (amzn) Web Services, which amasses huge amounts of computing, storage, and networking resources to rent to customers, is winning over more IT workloads that previously went to businesses that used to buy EMC, Dell, VMware, IBM (ibm), or HPE (hpe) gear.

He's using his newfound knowledge to increase SimStar's value, regardless of whether the company goes public, merges, or stays private.

«However, using the rules as reference points and discussing why our policy may differ from these policy descriptions could go some way in helping to explain our own policy reaction function to the public.»

Frames using Google's Glass technology have already been in existence and went on sale to the general public in April.

GoDaddy, for example, had to stop using racy ads before it went public because investors believed they could adversely affect the brand.

In a recent Fortune commentary piece, a private company CEO opined that the disadvantages of going public — using the examples of Snap and Blue Apron — far outweigh the advantages.

Companies tend to use it in order to schedule social media posts in advance, but it also allows you some time to think about your status updates prior to them going public.

Either we will go public, we will do an offering, we'll do something on the private equity side, or we will use all of our profits or as many as we can in consultation with investors to redistribute them to employees.»

It's used mainly by public relations, communications and marketing departments at agencies, and it's inexpensive, yet powerful enough to save a lot of work going into Twitter, YouTube, blogs, newsfeeds and search engines.

Startup America will use these goods and services to train and mentor entrepreneurs, increase the number of high - growth firms that create quality jobs and economic growth, and inspire the greater public to go out and «build great American companies.»

The Swedish company plans to go public, but first it needs certainty about the terms on which it uses the major labels» music on its platform.

If public transport networks become efficient and faster then people may be more likely to ditch their cars and use trains and buses instead, or so the theory goes.

After a global breakthrough of its smartphone game in which players use a slingshot to attack pigs who steal the birds» eggs, Rovio said a few years ago that it could go public by 2013, either in Hong Kong or New York.

The government is going to have to take over these banks and socialize them, and use them for public purposes.

Colorado also went public with the names of producers caught using the chemical.

Spotify had warned that its stock price could be more volatile than normal during the first day of trading since it did not use an underwriter to go public.

Some people have stopped trying to go to government health centers and begun using LG instead because purchasing from LG ends up being less expensive than traveling to the public clinic to get free treatments.

The company is ramping up for a novel «direct listing» — where it would sell its shares to the public without using Wall Street banks as a go - between later this year or early in 2018.

New SEC rules, mandated by the JOBS Act, go into effect on September 23 make public solicitation of investors legal, and companies are getting ready for what could be a revolution in how the media is used by NewSpace startups.

This is due to similarities in the code used in the online heist and in an earlier breach of Sony Pictures, according to two insiders quoted by Bloomberg and who asked to remain unidentified since the matter has not gone public.

«If you're in the B2C business, if you're selling anything to any consumer anywhere on the planet, you got ta believe that Amazon is gonna have a look at that opportunity to commoditize you to use scale to serve the public,» he said.

 Mr. Poloz himself bent over backwards in his last Monetary Policy Report to not use that term — even though the Bank's own numbers (projecting negative GDP growth for both the first and second quarters of 2015) suggested a recession was indeed already underway. Instead, public officials are normally sanguine and rose - coloured in their public pronouncements, hoping to incrementally shift consumer confidence with their cheeriness, and thus spark more spending. [A ridiculous extreme of this approach was provided when George Bush blithely encouraged Americans to go shopping in the days after the 9 - 11 terrorist attacks.]

The reality, of course, is the use cases for Ethereum go vastly beyond facilitating ICOs but for an investing public getting started on crypto investing, it didn't matter.

Whether that plan is you're going to get on an income - driven repayment plan, you're going to go for public service loan forgiveness, if you are going to refinance your student loans and you're going to side hustle and try to use that money to pay it off, like come up with a solid plan.

Garzik believes all blockchains, even private chains, must be based on public technology: «And then from side chains, private chains, confederated chain perspective, use that same software and simply build a gate around that permissions who is going to use that system.

Some argue using a permission blockchain would help as it would only allow a few people to fully access the records, but the possibility of having a government official (or just the regular public) know how an individual vote goes against the premise of free and fair elections.

After the suit went public, Avenatti unearthed and released an email proving that Cohen used his Trump Organization email account to arrange the wire transfer to Daniels, which could serve as additional evidence that Cohen is lying when he says Trump had no knowledge of the deal.

By Vivienne Foley, CNN New York (CNN)- Pastors and their congregants took to the streets of New York on Thursday to protest and to pray for Mayor Michael Bloomberg to reverse a ban on religious groups» use of public schools for worship service, scheduled to go into effect February 12.

CNN: Pastors protest New York ban on religious services Pastors and their congregants took to the streets of New York on Thursday to protest and to pray for Mayor Michael Bloomberg to reverse a ban on religious groups» use of public schools for worship service, scheduled to go into effect February 12.

Jean went on, though, to show me some undeniable connections between TR and BO: The use of the courts, the bureaucracy, and the MSM to direct and displace public opinion.

If you're going to write someone in the public sphere, the least you can do is make sure that you're using the right words.

But I have a huge issue when religion is foisted upon me, it is used to make public policy, and used to inflict injury and death to people who are deemed «unworthy» (like gays or blacks or people who won't go along for the ride).

So for them to think a blogger who has allowed discussion on the issues surrounding Tony as a public figure who used his privilege to control — is going to take it down blog posts simply because those who support the NPD or the NPD himself claims the «court» says so, must think we all fell off the turnip truck.

Journalism used to be smart people informing the public about what is going on in a straight forward and unbiased way (mostly).